Breaking: Ex-Fort Worth cop Aaron Dean sentenced to 11 years in prison for manslaughter
Updated with the jury's decision. Updated at 1:54 p.m. to include that a decision was reached. Updated at 12:55 p.m. to include additional details from inside the courthouse.
The same jurors found Dean, 38, guilty of manslaughter Thursday after weighing his guilt for about 14 hours over two days, drawingDean faced two to 20 years in prison but was also. Dean had been free on bond but was jailed after his manslaughter conviction. Prosecutors asked jurors for the maximum sentence while defense attorneys said Dean deserved probation. Prosecutors pleaded in closing arguments for jurors to return a 20-year sentence. Dean is white. Jefferson was Black. Although some of the 12 jurors are people of color,Jefferson’s “life is worth so much more than a probation sentence — so much more,” prosecutor Ashlea Deener said in closing arguments. “This family, her memory, her legacy, this community deserves more.
Dean testified he saw the barrel of Jefferson’s gun. His lawyers said in opening statements for the guilt-innocence phase of the trial he saw a green laser pointed at him, but Dean did not testify to that. Dean acted to protect himself and his fellow officer, Carol Darch, when he shot Jefferson, Gill said. Dean didn’t set out to “hunt someone down,” Gill said, he was trained by Fort Worth police to “eliminate a threat.”
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